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Add Gamma Globulin
To Everyday Words
(Editor' note: Following b
tha fint la a series of articles
prtpntd by tha National
Foundation for Infantile Paral
ysis concerning gamma jjlobu
lin a a temporary preventive
and tha foundation's atapa to
ward control of polio.)
Chaucer, perhaps more than
any other man, can be called the
architect of the English language.
History had to wait three cen
turies for a word-craftsman of
similar stature to appear- His
name was William Shakespeare.
Now, 300 years after Shake
speare, our vocabulary is being
expanded and enriched again by
a bewildering array of new ad
ditions. This time, it is from the
laboratories of the world that
the newcomers flow. And like
Chaucer and Shakespeare,
scienists draw liberally upon
Latin and Greek for the linguis
tic foundations of their words.
Such a word is gamma globulin
This tongue twister was hurled
into common conversational cur
rency by newspaper headlines.
1 ield trials of this part of human
blood as a temporary protection
against paralytic polio were
being conducted in Utah, Texas
and Iowa, financed by the March
of Dimes. The press of the nation
duly reported their progress.
When the tests did indeed show
that GG (leave it to Americans to
shorten tongue twisters) gave
temporary protection against
polio paralysis, an addition had
been made to our family of
everyday words.
Gamma Means Three
Gamma, of course, is Greek
and means "three." Globulin, to
confuse the issue, is based upon
the Latin "globus," meaning a
sphere, a small globe. This
"third globe," then, is one of
three globulins, the others being
termed "alpha" and "beta",
which remain after the albumin
in human blood has been removed.
This separation usually is ac
complished through precipitation
of whole blood in ethyl alcohol
end the use of a centrifuge- (The
farmer's cream separator also
uses the centrifugal principle to
part cream from milk.)
The albumin thus obtained
serves as a substitute for life-
saving whole plasma. Globulins
alpha and beta, though they con
tain some antibodies, are worth
less for the polio purpose. It is
the gamma fraction which has
proven effective against polio.
System's Watchdog
All of which brings up the
next question What is an antibody?
An antibody (from the Greek
"anti," against, and the Anglo
Saxon "bodig") is the system's
invisible watchdog. Not only do
an army of these guardians lie
in wait for any invading bacteria
or virus, others actually spring
into being as soon as the invader
makes his appearance.
Since neither an antibody nor
an attacking polio virus has ever
been seen by a human being,
scientists know of their existence
only by the effects they produce.
A nerve cell destroyed by polio
is the calling card of either
Brunhilde, Leon or Lansing, the
three polio viruses. The whole.
uncrippled body of a child who
has been exposed to polio is
evidence that the virus was in
activated before it could cripple
or kill.
Scientists believe that anti
bodies do not actually kill virus.
In the case of polio, it seems that
the antibodies hold the virus
prisoner and thus incapable of
doing damage.
Not Final Answer
That, incidentally, is why
workers supported by grants
from the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis know that
gamma globulin is not the final
answer to polio- The injection
of GG does not induce the body
to manufacture its own anti
bodies. When, after a few weeks,
til the injected antibodies, have
been discharged from the system,
the person may be again defense
less against polio.
Thus more March of Dimes
dollars must be invested in the
testing and perfection of a safe,
practical and reasonably perma
nent vaccine. It is hoped that
vaccine will prod the human
system into producing its own
antibodies which should give
long-lasting immunity.
Next: What is gamma globulin?
WAC Joins Guards
In Field Problems
Camp Riley, Minn. (U.F9 A
Milwaukee WAC donned a fa
tigue uniform today and joined
8,200 fellow National Guards
men working field problems
during a two week encampment
here.
The WAC, Warrant Officer
Olga Dornblatt, bad finally won
a four year argument with Army
brass over the right to train with
other members of her reserve
unit.
Miss Dornblatt spent three
years in North Africa and Italy
as the only woman in a wartime
OSS unit.
She was given quarters with
four nurses at the camp's service
club.
Lack of Equipment
Blamed in Drownings
Seattle (U.R) The Coast
Guard said today five persons
drowned in the Pacific North
west during the past two weeks
because of lack of life preserving
equipment.
Lack of life preservers was
blamed for the deaths of three
persons lost from a skiff off the
Oregon coast, the drowning of
one passenger of a capsized boat
on Lake Couer D'Alene, and the
death of a boy who fell from a
boat near Reedsport, Ore.
MAYBE HE DIDN'T SEE IT
Adrain, Mich (U.R) John
C. Bisorek, 19, knocked himself
out over a girl. The Detroit
youth was playing tag on a
beach yesterday when the girl
ducked under a life guard plat
form. Bisorek chased after her
but forgot to duck. He was
carried away unconscious and
treated at a hospital for a concussion.
What Makes a Business Succeed?
Let's have a linw in elementary economies, shall we?
A basiaess succeeds wnen it delivers Hie fee ane" gets maid for it.
A amines that doesn't eelirer end flats pai4, fails. After a while
it sroes setting orders, end there's nothing te deliver.
A business that delivers aad doesn't get paid, fails. Pretty soon it
can't afford te may for tha luxury of staying in basiaess,
A business starts as a risk: tha proprietor's capital, his faith hi his
ability to make aad hold easterners. If, having risked his money to
offer a service, be secures customers and doesn't keep them, he fails.
The only, way yea can stay in business is to keep on rendering a
service for which people will come back.
If wa didn't keep ear customers, we'd have had fa dose ear doors.
Let see asaka another point.
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cease ever the years enough pscpla have been wea to that business
te continue patronising it.
Yea con have confidence ha such aa
That ie why yea can have confidence h
our cleaning. See years while other
cleaners have coma and gone wa have
stayed right here, growing a little every
year. Satisfied auitomoii coming back aad
coming bach aad sending their friends to
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Kindness of France's
Friend May Result in
Trouble in Morocco
United Press Forelca News -Hor
PhU Newsom is on vacation.
For the next four weeks his for
eign affairs column will be written
fey Waiter G. Runuie of the Unit
Press foreign news staff.
By WALTER G. BUNDLE
United Press Correspondent
The French in Morocco are
threatened with the fate of the
man whose friends killed him
with kindness.
Their greatest friend in that
troubled North African protect
orate is 75-year-old Thami El
Mezouari El Glaoui, a sunburned
warrior, expert horseman Pasha
of Marrakech and ruler of 2,-
000,000 fierce Berber tribesmen.
France's most influential en
emy for years has been Sidi
Mohammed Ben Youssef, lineal
descendant of the prophet Mo
hammed, collaborator with the
anti-French Istiqual party and
sultan of Morocco.
Unwanted Sultaa
El Glaoui, motivated by friend
ship for France and a number of
more personal reasons including
an abiding and deep-rooted
hatred for the Sultan, has or
ganized the Berber Pashas and
Ciads in a determined drive to
topple him from his scented,
silken throne.
That act of friendship it not
the unvarnished favor to France
it would appear to be on the
surface. It was taken over the
objections of and against the
advice of the French government
which is bound by treaty to sup
port the Sultan's power.
The French fear that El Glaoui
has kicked up arrow which will
explode into bloody civil war
Guardsmen Alerted
In Indiana Strike
Indianapolis (U.R) Indiana
National Guard troops were
alerted today to move into the
28-day-old Indiana Bell Tele
phone strike and help state po
lice prevent violence.
Gov. George N. Craig alerted
the guardsmen for duty as
state troopers stood guard at the
reopened Bell exchange in Clin
ton.
Some officials of the striking
CIO Communications workers
took a dim view of Craig's in
terference in the labor dispute.
One said the governor was
'stumbling in the dark." Anoth
er said Indiana is becoming a
"police state."
Rep. Coon To Study
Spending in Europe
Portland U.R) Rep. Sam
Coon said today that he will be
among a group that will make
congressional study of United
States spending in foreign coun
tries while on a tour of Europe
and the Near East.
He said he would make the
trip with two other congressmen.
They will leave Washington
September 17.
Rep. Coon said the party will
investigate the use of U.S. funds
for State Department installa
tions and also observe the opera
tion of the Voice of America.
and could spill over to set the
Arab world aflame. They fear
that power in his hands might
open the way for harsh measures
against the Arab population.
Whatever the future develop
ments. El Glaoui has become a
power to contend with.
He wields his power from a
glittering palace that . might
have been taken from the pages
of the Arabian Nights. Located
on the rim of the Sahara, it is
guarded by six-foot, ebony-black
slaves armed with two-foot-jewelled
daggers and adorned
with bracelets of solid gold.
The source of his power Is
the nomadic tribesmen he com
mands; hard-riding, hard-fighting
blue-veiled Chleuhs who
never expose their faces before
women and whose arms are long
barreled rifles, swords and "cru
sader's" shields. Their weath
ered visages are stained a per
manent blue by their veils.
Old West Sagas Said
Best for Enjoyment
Kingston, R. I. (U.R) A
motion picture study group at
University of Rhode Island has
decided that for "pure enjoy
ment" nothing beats the cellu
loid sagas of the Old West.
The annual summer study
group, college professors, stu
dent and area residents, took a
long serious look at the doings
of bad men on the screen since
the 12-minute classic "The Great
Train Robbery," set the pattern
of the western movie 50 years
ago.
"Most of the group said the
series was the most enjoyable
so far," Chester A. Berry, direc
tor of the program since it start
ed in 1947, said today. "Very
surprising result."
Nothing in o Name,
Autoist Discovers
Greenville, S. C. (U.R)
Jack McCall of Greenville will
tell you there's nothing in a
name.
McCall parked his car on a
street during a recent heat wave.
When he returned some time
later, the heat had cracked a
window in the vehicle.
The car was parked on Frost
street.
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